Our small car park at Copt Hall Marshes is open 9am-5pm during the winter. You don't need to book, but spaces are limited, so if the car park is full, please come back another time.
Opening times for 25 April 2024
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Under close control or on leads. Please keep to the marked trails.
No toilets. Some areas may be difficult to access.
A striking eight-bedroom farmhouse with fine historic detailing throughout.
About Copt Hall Marshes
Under leaden skies with a face full of wind there's nowhere like Copt Hall for refreshing the mind and blowing away the cobwebs.
As a working farm on the remote and beautiful Blackwater Estuary Copt Hall balances arable crop production and access with coastal nature conservation. Our work involves creating and maintaining a variety of wildlife rich habitats including nectar-rich areas for insects; field margins, scrub and hedgerows for farmland birds; and wet grassland and scrapes for waders and wildfowl.
Copt Hall is a really important area for breeding birds such as corn bunting, yellow hammer, skylark and barn owl, which have been encouraged by this work. The site is noted for overwintering wildfowl and waders including Brent geese, curlew and golden plover. These can be viewed on the fields and saltmarsh whilst enjoying a bracing walk around the farm trails and along the sea wall to our bird hide overlooking the scrapes.
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